Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: A Story to Tell

(03-06-2022) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=A Story to Tell=

"Your testimony is the story of your encounter with God and what role He has played throughout your life."

*John 4:25-26
"25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

-She was living in immorality.
-Outcast and rejected in their community.
-Insignificant

-It was the reason why she was drawing water from the well at an unusual time of the day.

"Her bad story was turned to a good testimony."

"Only God can turn mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into triumph, a victim into a victor.

When she shared her testimony:
1. People responded to her invitation.
*John 4:29-30
"29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

2. She became part of the great harvest for the Lord.
*John 4:31-38
"31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"
34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

"The truth fulfillment in life is to do and finish the mission God has given us."

35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.
38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

3. Their community was transformed.
*John 4:39-41
"39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did.
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
41 And because of his words many more became believers.

"Your story is the key that unlock someone else's prison."

4. People believed Jesus because of her testimony.
*John 4:42
"42 They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

"The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior"
-Billy Grahams

"You are the only Bible that some unbelievers will ever read."
-Ptr. John MacArthur

S-hare it in season and out of season.
T-ell God's goodness to others now.
O-vercome intimidation and fear.
R-ealize the power of God's work in you.
Y-ou must be God's instrument in sharing His love.